Google Search: Turn off PR
Yesterday’s post on Web Pro News reminded me of something I’ve been concerned about a lot: Black hat SEO tactics. In short, some SEO companies hire low pay people to post fake comments on blogs to get a back link. This does 3 things: 1. Annoys the shit out of the blog owner who has to weed through comments to pick out the fake ones that Akismet doesn’t catch. 2. Annoy the hell out of Google search user who is trying to find the best content – not the highest paid SEO team. 3. Keep the small businesses out of the...
read moreWhy you shouldn't be TOO concerned about ranks
As bloggers, we’re constantly being told that we should be keeping a keen eye on our Google Page rank as well as Alexa ranking. While it is very fulfilling to see your site ranks go up, there’s more to the story than that. As you know, both of these ranks compare your site to Every Single Website On The Web. It is hard to even comprehend how many websites that is. Even if you knew the exact number of different websites on the planet, it would still be hard to understand. It’s like knowing that Australia is a bloody big...
read moreI want Google to keep their secrets
When I first started using Google back in the day when there still was an alternative and my mother-in-law wouldn’t have asked the question “If I want to open an internet connection, I have to contact Google, right?” I started using it for the reason that it ignored meta-tags and searched the page content only. I knew I would get relevant search results instead of gunk that webmasters served me as lobsters. (Did that make sense to you? I just made it up like that. Good one, eh? Feel free to use it.) Nowadays, everything is...
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